The weather kept following the same pattern today. Completely calm overnight and then a very gentle breeze coming up during the morning, but bright sunshine. Beautiful weather, but not so much for sailing. With just 4-6 knots of breeze and a course downwind, the iron topsail was the choice of …
A very short run today to carry on our quest of finding as many anchorages as possible in the northern archipelago. With the help of the excellent Hamnguiden, we selected Träskö Storö. It looked a fairly broad easy entrance, but plenty of space to hold all the Swedes on holiday as …
To quell the disappointment at the football result, we moved this morning to another anchorage in the archipelago on Lådna. We had to motor all the way with what wind there was being right on the nose. However, with a maximum of around 7 knots, we’d have struggled to sail anyway! …
We set off promptly this morning. We wanted to get a berth in Vaxholm as we figured that would be the best place to watch the football, but Vaxholm is like Piccadilly Circus at this time of year. So, we left Ekholmen at 9am, arriving just an hour and a …
Another short run today to continue our mission of exploring the northern part of the archipelago. We left Krokholmsviken just before 10am and headed back towards Vaxholm. We managed to sail some stretches but rarely were making anything more than 4 knots, so the engine was on and off all …
Carrying on in the vein of exploring new anchorages, we headed today for a small anchorage called Krokholmsviken. We knew this had a tight and slightly shallow entrance, but it opened out into a bay with around 9 metres of water, so we thought we’d give it a go. It …
Yesterday morning we had a look round the fort. As expected, it was a damp, depressing place, but fascinating historically and intriguing to see how they had tried to create a suitable living environment for up to 300 soldiers. They clearly failed as it was too damp to ever allow …
We had meant to have another early start this morning, but, for a change, Airborne had beaten up and were long gone heading south. Constance was also long gone and even at 07.20 when we left, the anchorage was emptying fast. We headed out of the south channel and across …
With a more promising forecast (still from the north), we finally decided to leave Öregrund this morning. With a 40 mile passage to Arholma we left promptly at about 06.45. We had to motor for the first couple of hours down through the channel between the islands but the wind then …
We ended up staying in Öregrund a few days. The wind decided to blow quite hard from the north and, while we were heading south, it was more than we wanted. The harbour gradually filled up with a variety of Swedish, Finnish and German boats (along with us and Airborne …
